Babel is a JavaScript transpiler. It can take ES2015, or now ES2016 code and make it work on your web browser by transpiling it to ES5. This is important because not all web browsers support the new ECMA standards as of this writing. I wrote about Babel last year and…

An updated Tutorial using Babel 6 can be found here! Babel is a JavaScript transpiler. What that means is that we can take ES2015 code and make it work on all browsers, even ones that may not support it. Essentially Babel takes the ES2015 JavaScript code and compiles it into…